Merry Xmas all and a happy New Year to all !!!!!.
A Bit of bad news :( with moving to a new QTH I'm in a very HF unfriendly environment and am not able to provide any HF Coverage of Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2012.
That said, VK3VIM who has also been providing HF Comm Coverage / Streaming has gone to a lot of effort to provide live coverage of both the Primary (6516khz) and Secondary (4483khz) race frequency. Please head on over and take a look at his dedicated site for "
Australian Yacht Racing Radio Guide" Which included links to his live HF comms streams which should be coming on line for race time fairly soon.
Again BIG!!! thanks to
@grantstowell / VK3VIM for all the effort and time he's put in providing us with these HF comms / streams.
Update - 26/12/2012
VK3VIM has provided access to live stream via Listen2MyRadio -
Listen Here
Update - 28/12/2012
I was able to put up an inverted V antenna (slighty OCF i.e. 1 leg shorter than the other) and has performed not too badly. I've been broadcasting once again using "Listen2MyRadio" streaming services and my station link is:
Maritime Event HF Comms 2012
I've reviewed audio recordings recorded while the station is broadcasting and had located some sound snippets for your enjoyment. They are located here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/iee3780m5j8les7/X0PyLrVuz-/S2H_2012
BTW Great news, one change to the Race Frequency usage was that the primary for night time is now 4483 khz and not 6516khz which had an very strong interfering Asian Broastcast station on 6518khz which has plagued our enjoyable listening at night time for many years.
The stream will remain up till then end of the Sydney Hobart, and I'll then see if I can provide coverage of the "
2013 Pittwater-Coffs race"
Mark
(AussieDrifter)
